The real problem is all this "public" land. Privatize all state-owned
land and deal with these homelessness issues through application of
trespassing law.
-Derek
More correctly, the ideas presented wont fly under fascism.
Licensure laws protect the pollitically connected. Markets and fraud
laws can protect consumers without prior constraint of licenses, so
long as the State does it's job and makes courts easily available for
any dispute over twenty dollars( in 1789 dollars). How about the hugh
number of units being held off the market for ellis act reasons. How
about allowing them to be rented to homeless folks, as many as want to
live there , with no penalty to the landlord.
The problem is that homeless and the poor are locked out of economic
activityby those who use the State to gain monopoly profits, the best
example being the cab drivers, and the muni drivers.
Just because the tyranny is done with good intentions does not make
it any less lethal.
Equal protection under the law does not require equal tyranny by
the law. Let the poorest be free.While we are at it, let the homeless
go to any medical practioner they choose.
Let them live in any housing they choose, and void all prior
restraint on building methods on those who build just for the
homeless. (With of course liability for hazards under the common law).
This is not anarchy, this is economic freedom under the established
constraints of common law.m
From: Justin DeCastro
To: Philip Berg
Cc: misha
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: CALL YOUR SUPERVISOR and STOP CRIMINALIZATION
Equal protection under the law . . . what applies to the
non-homeless legally must apply to the homeless as well, like being
licensed to do contractual work. Protection of the homeowner from
unscrupulous contractors, homeless or not. Your ideas are fine under
anarchy, but they'll never fly under capitalism.
Justin
Instead of a citation, how about a get out of jail card if
caught doing legitimate consensual activities that are presently
illegal. for example, give a homeless person a license to drive any
car for money, eliminating the need for a taxi medalion, or give her
permission to run a small gambling operation, for example at three
digit lottery with a 900 hundred dollar payout, or permission to live
anywhere in the city in any residence and not be found in violation of
the laws prohibiting unrelated adults from living together, or allow
him to prepare and sell food anywhere there are willing customers, or
allow her to braid hair for money, anywhere, or allow them to paint,
do carpentry, do plumbing, do electrical work without a license, or
allow them to work at any job they so choose without any taxes or or
reporting requirements. In other words give them the liberty to take
care of themselves and loved ones.
From: Justin DeCastro
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Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: CALL YOUR SUPERVISOR and STOP CRIMINALIZATION
Right on! I'm in Dufty's district, so I guess it won't help
to tell him that I disapprove of his and Gavin's amendments.
Unfortunately, Dufty has the backing of lots of affluent property
owners in the Queer Community who would just as soon "get rid of" the
homeless entirely. More unfortunately, queer renters seem to concur
based on their deluded belief that they "above" poverty and
homelessness. If there were no rent control, I doubt queer renters
would see their interests as being in the same court as Dufty and
queer property owners.
Yes, OFFER HOUSING BEFORE HANDING A HOMELESS PERSON A CITATION
FOR SLEEPING IN PUBLIC.
No, THERE SHOULD BE NO CRIMINAL LAW(S) AGAINST SLEEPING IN THE
PUBLIC STREETS.
If Newsom/Dufty's amendments win over Tom Ammiano's proposed
amendments, we may as well be ready to watch the de facto genocide of
the poor and homeless, if not a Newsom/Dufty proposal to euthanize the
poor. What the hell? It all amounts to killing them off, doesn't it?
Let the blood and suffering and deaths of the homeless in San
Francisco be on Newsom and Dufty!
Make Newsom and Dufty spend one frikkin week homeless and with
no recourse but to sleep on the public streets and sidewalks. Ticket
THEM and let them know how it feels to be criminalized for poverty and
homelessness. Toss THEM in jail so that they know what they're
proposing for San Francisco's homeless folks.
What's good for the poor is good for da mayuhh.
Justin DeCastro
San Francisco de Califaztlan
"When tyranny is law, revolution is order!" -- Don Pedro
Albizu Campos, P.R.
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to
his needs."-Karl Marx
"Quiero morir un esclavo a los principios y no de los
hombres." -Emiliano Zapata
"Gay Liberation is impossible without Socialist Revolution, and
Socialist Revolution is incomplete without Gay Liberation."
-Lavender & Red
"At the risk of sounding perfectly ridiculous, let me say that
the object of our revolution is love." -Ernesto Che Guevara
"If we have learned one thing from the civil rights movement
in the United States, it is that when you let others speak for
you,
you lose." -Ed Roberts, Disability Rights Leader.
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence
of our friends." -Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Patriot Act 5 Disclaimer Notice: All my writings are parody
intended for entertainment ONLY.
Subj: CALL YOUR SUPERVISOR and STOP CRIMINALIZATION
Date: 1/3/2008 4:53:52 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: director@... (Jennifer Friedenbach)
To: Iolmisha@...
DON'T LET THEM CRIMINALIZE POOR PEOPLE IN 2008
We are starting a new year folks and THIS Tuesday, January
8, 2008 a
CRITICAL issue that will give us the opportunity to HALT the
criminalization of poor folks whose only crime is being too
poor to pay
the rent!
The Full Board will be voting as to whether to amend the
camping and
sleeping code to make it easier to cite people for SLEEPING.
Supervisor Ammiano has a counter amendment that says they
have to offer
housing before they can city folks (YES WE LIKE THIS IDEA!).
This
would codify what the Mayor says he is already doing.
The Mayor doesn't like it, and is pushing through Supervisor
Dufty a
counter amendment that would give people the ticket, then
have them
prove they were offered services, and if they get any other
tickets,
the tickets would stand!
NO NO NO we don't like that.
Folks ARE going to jail for trying to some sleep in Frisco.
This is
not the Middle Ages. Let US STOP the MADNESS!
WE NEED YOU TO GET ON THE PHONE AND CALL CALL CALL, HAVE
YOUR FRIENDS
CALL THE FOLLOWING SUPERVISORS:
SUP SANDOVAL 554-6975
SUP MAXWELL 554-7670
SUP MCGOLDRICK 554-7410
TELL THEM TO REJECT THE NEWSOM/DUFTY AMENDMENTS AND APPROVE
THE AMMIANO AMENDMENT
ALSO JOIN US AT 10:00 AM ON THE STEPS OF CITY HALL this
monday JANUARY 7, TO HELP US LOBBY THE SUPS!
Jennifer Friedenbach
Executive Director
Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
468 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 346-3740 x 306
fax: 775-5639
To learn more about our work, and to get the latest scoop on
the
politics of poverty in SF, go to the Street Sheet blog:
www.cohsf.org/streetsheet
Jennifer Friedenbach
Executive Director
Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
468 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 346-3740 x 306
fax: 775-5639
To learn more about our work, and to get the latest scoop on
the